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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
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